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Hall prepares for return as host of football camp
Thursday, June 19, 2008

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NEAL C. LAURON | DISPATCH

After stepping away from the playing field, Maurice Hall founded The Game Winner Foundation.Former Ohio State tailback Maurice Hall will host his third-annual All-Star Football Camp on July 12 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event, to be held at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, will include an appearance by Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel.

A new component to this year's event is a cheerleading camp coached by Columbus Destroyers and former Ohio State cheerleaders. Also new this year is the Mo Football for Moms Camp, to be held at the Longaberger Alumni House from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on July 11.

The goal of the moms camp will be to educate and inform women about what it takes to raise a successful athlete. Deb Johnson will discuss the obstacles she faced in raising her son, Jay Richardson of the Oakland Raiders; and David Lee Morgan, author of Tressel?s Fundamentals for Football, also will speak. A panel of former Ohio State players will conduct a Q&A session.
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Ex-player learning new play
Saturday, February 7, 2009
By Nancy Gilson
The Columbus Dispatch

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MadLab Theatre
Maurice Hall and Jennifer Ntiri in Said/Unsaid

It's OK now to tell Maurice Hall to break a leg.

The former Ohio State running back is into theater.

Hall, 25, made his acting debut last night in MadLab Theatre's Said/Unsaid, a 10-minute play about miscommunication between a husband and wife starring Hall and Jennifer Ntiri.

"The things that I say, she takes a totally different way than I intend and vice versa," he explained. "It's pretty funny."

The play is part of MadLab's "3 in 30" project, featuring three 10-minute original plays in 30 minutes. Said/Unsaid was written by Jim Azelvandre.

When Hall was an OSU student from 2001 to '05, he took a couple of acting classes but never had time to audition for a play.

"I've been taking acting classes at MadLab for about eight or nine months now," he said. "I've been looking on Craigslist for places to audition, and I came to an audition here one day."

Greg McGill, a MadLab ensemble member who helps plan the "3 in 30" project, described Hall as "a regular guy who has some talent and is really working on it."

"When someone has a little celebrity, you don't expect them to have such an open, part-of-the-team attitude."

Hall works in human resources at a Target store and, during the college-football season, as a sports analyst for WCMH-TV (Channel 4).

But acting, he said, "is definitely the career I'm pursuing."

He has also involved some friends: Hall talked two former teammates, defensive back Antonio Smith and running back Roshawn Parker, into taking acting classes at MadLab.
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From endzone to stage, former Buckeye Maurice Hall back in the spotlight
By James Oldham
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Updated: Thursday, January 27, 2011

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Ohio State running back Maurice Hall breaks through Bowling Green's defense on Sept. 20, 2003 at Ohio Stadium. The Buckeyes won 24-17.

Maurice Hall is familiar with the venomous stereotype that haunts athletes who have made a similar career choice.

It followed Hall across the country, from Columbus, Ohio, to Los Angeles.

"Initially you hear that ?Oh, he's just a football player that wants to get into acting' kind of thing, and I wanted to really get rid of that stereotype," Hall said. "So, I applied the work ethic and the practice methods I used playing football, and put it into acting.

"Eventually it got (to) the point where my growth as an actor was visible, and more people started to look at me as an actor, versus a football player who just wants to act."

Hall was a running back on the Ohio State football team from 2001-04, winning a National Championship in 2002. The San Diego Chargers signed him in April 2005, but less than a month later he was unemployed.

Hall returned to Columbus to pursue his master's in sports administration, while working as an assistant to OSU athletic director Gene Smith and doing sports television work for NBC.

"During football season, I would do sports analysis stuff pertaining to high school football, along with Ohio State football," Hall said. "The more I did that, the more I got comfortable with being in front of the camera and having fun with it."

His future in acting was starting to take shape. While working on the show "Football Friday Nights," Hall had an opportunity to perform in skits.

"I liked the aspect of coming up with skits," Hall said, "and performing them on TV really got me motivated to want to do more."

So, Hall searched for an agent. Though there might not be any Ari Emanuels in Columbus, Hall found a commercial agent.

"She referred me to do some acting classes to help with my auditioning for things going on in Columbus," Hall said. "Once I started taking acting classes, I kind of fell in love with it."

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Published: 11/11/2012
?THE UNSUNG HERO?
Running back Maurice Hall an unsung hero for 2002 Buckeyes
BY DAVID BRIGGS
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

MAURICE HALL

Running back

Maurice Hall played the unsung hero in Ohio State?s national championship season.

As an aspiring actor a decade later, he is typecast in a different way.

?The main things I?ve gone out for is the young dad on TV shows, the news reporter, and the police officer,? he said.

Hall, 29, is in his third year trying to make it in Hollywood, where his days are filled with auditions and the uncertainty of life as a young artist. The former OSU running back has played bit roles on the TV shows Grey?s Anatomy and The Mentalist, performed on stage, and written an online web series. For now, he pays his bills by working the desk at a gym.

?I feel like it?s just a matter of time until you?ll see me on the big screen,? he said.

One advantage: He has experience on the big stage.

Cast in the background for much of his career ? Hall rushed for 974 yards over four seasons ? he played an outsized role as a sophomore in 2002. The Columbus native is remembered for his game-winning touchdowns in the final two weeks of the regular season: An eight-yard overtime dash against Illinois, and a two-yard run on an option pitch against Michigan.

Hall said the pressure of his old job helped prepare him for his new one ? a bug spurred by a theater class he took at Ohio State. If auditions admittedly inspire more nerves than playing before 105,000 fans, the man who burst into OSU lore enjoys the challenge of being someone else.

Like, say, a cop or a doctor or a ? fanatical peewee football coach. In one audition tape, he forcefully tells a team of 8-year-olds, ?Hitting ain?t about how much you weigh, it?s about how bad you want to put your man on a stretcher. ? So are you here to have fun and drink juice boxes, or are you here to kill, destroy, and win??

Said Hall: ?I decided if this was what I wanted to do, it?s definitely not going to happen in Columbus.

?I said, ?I?m going to make this happen.? ?
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